Just last month, Clinton had an eight point lead in Florida.
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The poll was conducted on July 8-12, mostly before Bernie Sanders offered Clinton a long-awaited endorsement.
Most voters in the poll say Clinton did something wrong when she used a personal email setup for official work, including 46 percent who say what she did was illegal.
To be more specific, in Florida, Trump leads Clinton 41 to 36 percent, with 7 percent for Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian party, and 4 percent for Jill Stein, from the Green Party.
According to RealClearPolitics.Com, which keeps track of all major national polls, Clinton has an edge of 3.1 percentage points over Trump in the average of major polls.
Some 82 percent of likely United States voters understand that the no-free-lunch axiom of economics also applies to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s call for tuition-free college, a new Rasmussen poll revealed.
Over the past several weeks, Mr Trump has faced criticism for his past business dealings and has quarreled with Republican leaders over his rejection of global trade agreements and his promises to crack down on immigration.
FILE – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivers a speech in Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 11, 2016. But on some of the issues Americans care about most, including handling the economy and domestic terrorism, Trump holds a narrow lead.
“You have to figure the cumulative effect of all these investigations about her emails can’t help”, said Quinnipiac assistant poll director Tim Malloy.
Both Trump and Clinton received negative favorability marks overall – 60 percent of those polled viewed Clinton unfavorably, while 59 percent viewed Trump as such.
But he said Ms Clinton lost ground to Trump on questions that measure moral standards and honesty.
In a speech weighted with America’s complicated racial history, Democrat Hillary Clinton launched into Republican presidential rival Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of fueling divisions among Americans over race and religion.
Men are more likely than women to have a favorable opinion of Trump, 34 percent to 28 percent.
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And in Pennsylvania, where Clinton was ahead by nine points, 10 percent of the 829 voters are African American, and they went for Clinton, 91 percent to 0 percent.
